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Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Queer Tarotscopes for Leo Season 2022: What Would It Take For You To Shine?

It can be hard to learn how to take up space proudly, abundantly, unapologetically.

meg July 22, 2022 2 Comments
Mabel and Alice stand leaning against each other against the bathroom sink, their mouths kissing distance apart, and we're viewing them through the hazy film of the shower curtain
TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Cara Delevingne and Selena Gomez Kiss and Lie Some More on “Only Murders in the Building”

Plus updates on The Chi, For All Mankind, and Roswell, New Mexico.

Natalie and Valerie Anne
July 22, 2022
After Malika's work happy hour, she and Angelica return to the Coterie. They're in the elevator, heading up to Malika's loft, carefully avoiding each other's gaze.
TV Show Recaps

“Good Trouble” Episode 412 Recap: Thirsty Thurs-yay

Angelica and Malika have one of those fights that starts out as mild annoyance and turns into a referendum on the entire relationship. Get it together and use your words, you gays!

Natalie July 22, 2022 1 Comment
In a screenshot from Kamikaze Hearts, two women with mullets (one blonde, one brunette) are pressed up together against a wall. The blonde mullet has her arms grazing the shoulder and face of the brunette. It's the 1980s, with 1980s style bright make up included.
Movie Reviews

Lesbian Classic “Kamikaze Hearts” Asks Questions About Porn and Sex, Fiction and Reality

Juliet Bashore and Tigr’s approach to this film was revolutionary, but now it would fit right in as The Real Gay Housewives of 1970s San Francisco.

Drew Burnett Gregory July 22, 2022
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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Watching Wishbone

“You are home here!”

Darcy July 22, 2022 6 Comments
Three self-help book covers: How to Stop Overthinking, Set Boundaries, Find Peace, and You Are Not the Target
Health

10 Self Help Books Whose Titles Healed Me Without Having to Actually Read Them

Is reading nonfiction case histories of women who love too much really what I want to do with my one wild and precious life?

Darcy July 22, 2022 30 Comments
two queer women sit on the stairs comparing paint swatches. a ladder and drop cloth are visible in the background.
AF+

Member2Member Advice: Home Reno, Household Fixes and Repairs

Need advice or have advice to give on all things fixing, repairing, renovating or otherwise altering things in your home — whatever and wherever that may be? This is the place to exchange advice with your fellow members!

Nico July 22, 2022 54 Comments
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First Person

“When I Got Sober So Many Relationships Just Ended”: Sober Queers on Friendships and Community

“I came to realize I am a terrible parent when I’m drunk.”

danijanae, Analyssa and Tracy Levesque
July 22, 2022 14 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: “We Cannot Stop Fighting,” Steph Curry, Skylar Diggins-Smith, and Nneka Ogwumike Say Brittney Griner’s Name

At last night’s ESPYs some of the greatest players in basketball said they’ll keep going until BG is home. Also: we’re closer than ever before to codifying and protecting same-sex marriage in federal law.

Carmen Phillips July 21, 2022 3 Comments
A pattered collage in yellow and blue that has four book covers layered over it: Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare (which is swirled in black and white), More Than Organs by Kay Ulanday Barrett (which has orange bold type over a navy blue background), The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me by Keah Brown (which has pink and yellow lettering a photo of the author Keah Brown, who is a black woman), and Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (which has the words Care Work in olive green stamped font and beige and orange watercolor coloring in the background)
Book Lists

12 Books to Read to Be a Better Ally to Disabled People This Disability Pride Month

This list will make you laugh out loud, bring you to tears, make you question things you believed to be true, and even make you want to blast Demi Lovato.

Katie July 21, 2022 13 Comments
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Community

The Five Drinks You Taste in Heaven: How a Coffee Shop Became Home

These are the moments that I can still taste, still feel on my hardest days.

shea wesley martin July 21, 2022 18 Comments
Taylor Armstrong and Brandi Glanville make out on Ultimate Girls Trip: Ex-Wives Club
TV Reviews

“Ultimate Girls Trip: Ex-Wives Club” Is Real Housewives At Its Most Homoerotic

At this point, I’m half-expecting full-on scissoring in the upcoming season finale.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya July 21, 2022 2 Comments
Christen Press Tobin Heath ESPYS: The couple attends the 2022 ESPYs at Dolby Theatre
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Christen Press and Tobin Heath Hold Pinkies, Full-On Canoodle at the ESPYS

May I just say, for two people who have very deliberately kept their faces from smooshing together in public, these two faces look VERY GOOD smooshed together. 

Heather Hogan July 21, 2022 13 Comments
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Beauty

Put This on Your Face: Lip Oils

#beautytok can’t get enough of the viral Dior Lip Glow Oil, but here are some other lip oil options for hydrated, shiny, unsticky lips.

ashni July 21, 2022 4 Comments
Motherland: Fort Salem, Scylla and Tally lock eyes as they stand before the Council
TV Show Recaps

“Motherland: Fort Salem” Episode 305 Recap: Are We Out of the Woods Yet?

The Bellweather Unit asks the Cession Council to help them escape the Camarilla, and they get one step closer to finding Raelle.

Valerie Anne July 20, 2022 3 Comments
Villanelle in a suit from Killing Eve. Text reads: did you think i was dead?
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Jodie Comer’s New TV Series Sounds Very Gay and Killing Eve-y

Wee-ooh! Wee-ooh! Harley Quinn red band trailer alert! And you simply must watch Keke Palmer’s Most Searched Questions.

Heather Hogan July 20, 2022 3 Comments
WITAD? in yellow is against a purple background. A photo of Brittani Nichol wearing a jean jacket is below. Next to the photo in a yellow bubble it says "Partner's Pets" with guest Brittani Nichols" and then surrounding are various emoji stickers.
Dating Pets & Animals Podcasts

“Wait, Is This a Date?” Podcast Episode 204: Partner’s Pets

Animals, like people, have their own personalities and should be taken on a case-by-case basis. (AKA wherein Drew bravely says that snakes are maybe a bit sexy thanks to a certain pop star.)

Drew Burnett Gregory July 20, 2022 4 Comments
Hayley Kiyoko and Becca Tilley are holding onto each other in the center photo with a blue circle behind them. On either side of the central photo are the same image of Hayley sitting on Becca's shoulders.
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Time to WRAP UP Cancer Season Because These Posts Made Me Entirely Too Emotional!

Also, oh to be a pineapple, held aloft by Chef Melissa King!

Christina Tucker July 20, 2022 1 Comment
Emmanuel the emu and his caretaker stare at each other and smile
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

So — An Emu, A Lesbian, and An Ex-Bachelorette Walk Onto A Farm

“EMMANUEL, DON’T DO IT.”

Stef July 19, 2022 13 Comments
Resident Evil: Lesbian CEO Evelyn Marcus stands with one hand on her hip like the boss bitch she is
TV Reviews

“Resident Evil” Has a Lesbian CEO to Die For

Evelyn Marcus is a sociopathic CEO first, a lesbian second. And that’s the kind of queer villain we deserve.

Valerie Anne July 19, 2022 18 Comments
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